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	River Rouge - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The city grew in the 1920s with the expansion of the Ford Motor Company in the area; however, River Rouge and its automobile industry suffered in the late 20th cent.
		ROUGE RESCUE: Friends of the river to take out trash: Annual cleanup to focus on litter and abandoned cars.
		Now the Rouge is green, flexible and a prototype for Ford's plants of the future.(Marketing)(Ford Motor Co. considers what to do with its River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-RiverRou.html (494 words)

	An Overview of the Rouge River
		Because the Rouge supplied them with food, water, and a mode of transportation, all these early settlers depended upon the Rouge River for their survival.
		The headwaters of the Rouge, primarily in the north and west areas of the watershed are primarily hilly, while the southeast is relatively flat.
		The Rouge River Watershed is composed of various materials that were deposited during the period of glacial activity.
	www.rougeriver.com /geninfo/overview.html (674 words)

	River Rouge Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Rouge Plant (commonly known as the Rouge Complex or just The Rouge) is a Ford Motor Company automobile factory complex located in Dearborn, Michigan at the confluence of the Rouge and Detroit rivers and Zug island.
		Although the Rouge's coke ovens and foundry produced nearly all the parts of the Model T, assembly of that vehicle remained at Highland Park.
		The old assembly plant was inactivated with the construction and launch of a new assembly facility on the Miller Road side of the complex, currently producing Ford F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT pickup trucks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Rouge_Plant (755 words)

	Ford River Rouge Plant Explosion: Links
		Rouge blast probe focuses on valves in the powerhouse -
		Investigators looking into the Ford Rouge plant explosion -- now the deadliest accident at an auto facility in at least 50 years -- are examining the valves that controlled gas flow to a powerhouse boiler.
		Ford Rouge welder dies at hospital - State officials said Thursday the blast was caused by a buildup of gas inside the boiler.
	www.hilbornlaw.com /RougePlant/NewsLinks.htm (6740 words)

	Stepan-Norris and Southworth Paper, Center for the Study of Democracy, UCI
		Although UAW Local 600 at the Ford River Rouge plant stood out as a progressive force, it is representative of a number of "communist-dominated" unions in the CIO, which during the 1940s constituted almost half of all CIO unions (Kampelman 1957).
		The Rouge workforce is determined by adding all skilled workers, operatives and laborers that worked in manufacturing of transportation equipment, all other manufacturing, construction, transportation, communication and public utilities or wholesale trade, and who listed the Rouge as their work trip destination.
		We have described the size and importance of the Ford River Rouge plant and its placement in a city with a heavy concentration of autoworkers was somewhat unique.
	www.democ.uci.edu /publications/papersseriespre2001/stepan.htm (14570 words)

	Ford Thinks Green for Historic River Rouge Plant - New York Times
		At the start of the last century, it was a marshy area in the flood plain of the slow, twisting River Rouge southwest of the then-small city of Detroit.
		By the time he finished, mills at the Rouge refined iron ore into steel for use in car bodies, engine blocks and other components; melted glass for windows and headlights; produced early plastics from soybeans; and assembled the parts into Model T and Model A cars.
		THE future of the Rouge apparently was determined when William Clay Ford Jr., the great-grandson of the founder, became chairman of the company early last year.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3DC173AF935A15752C1A9669C8B63 (695 words)

	Great Lakes Area of Concerns (AoCs): Rouge River \| Great Lakes \| US EPA
		The lower four miles of the river are maintained as a shipping channel from the turning basin to the river's mouth at the south end of Zug Island.
		The 2004 Rouge River RAP Revision (PDF 3.88Mb 153 pages) includes initial delisting criteria for several of the identified BUIs, some of which may be ready for formal delisting in the near future.
		The Rouge River RAP was completed in 1989 and has been heralded as a model for community involvement and public support.
	www.epa.gov /glnpo/aoc/rougriv.html (1133 words)

	Wired 10.02: Prophet of Bloom
		The Armani-clad McDonough surveys the ruins strung along the dark, slack river, cruising past eye-level piles of fl, powdery ash heaps, a spindly gas tower, and the proto-industrial blast ovens.
		For McDonough, who is 50 and a part-time professor at the University of Virginia, River Rouge is a mighty feather.
		Outside, an entire fleet of ore freighters idled along the dredged Rouge River, and inside, 100 miles of railroad tracks knotted the grounds.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.02/mcdonough.html (1117 words)

	Ford Motor Company - Rouge Renovation
		Artist Richard Rochon's rendering of an aerial view of the Ford Rouge Center in Dearborn, Michigan, USA that includes a new Ford assembly plant.
		An All-New Rouge from the Ground Up To turn the $2 billion project into reality, Ford assembled a dream team of environmental, development and manufacturing specialists and recruited noted sustainability architect, William McDonough.
		It depicts the life of the center across the decades and honors the generations of people who made the Rouge an icon of 20th century manufacturing.
	www.ford.com /en/goodWorks/environment/cleanerManufacturing/rougeRenovation.htm (856 words)

	Michigan Land Use Institute,sprawl,non-profit,nonprofit,non profit,research,land stewardship, land use,energy ...
		But as the Rouge factory’s modernization — which includes the new assembly factory and updates on some existing buildings — evolves from ambitious concept to actual construction, the plant’s 7,000 workers, and millions of Detroit-area residents are coming to recognize its significance beyond the factory walls.
		To control rainwater and pollutants, the assembly plant's 15-acre parking lot is covered with a porous surface through which water is filtered, cleansed and stored in underground basins to be slowly released into canals and wetlands.
		Ford’s plant, which sits on a bend just upstream from where the Rouge River empties into the Detroit River, is essential to the restoration project and the region’s economic health, say city officials.
	www.mlui.org /growthmanagement/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16373 (1864 words)

	UP 538 - Economic Development Planning Resource Book
		The first automobile produced at the plant was the new Model A, and as Henry Ford was building his industry, his son Edsel was busy presenting and promoting his father’s vision to the nation.
		The River Rouge Plant was an “ore to assembly” complex, designed to achieve Ford’s ground-breaking goal of complete self-sufficiency.
		The Ford Rouge Center is also very environmentally focused, it has the world’s largest porous parking lot and over 10 acres of roof covered with sedum, a living plant, two parts of an extensive system to manage storm water naturally.
	www.umich.edu /~econdev/riverrouge/index.html (1658 words)

	Ford overhauls factory to be green - Green Machines - MSNBC.com
		Carlos Osorio / AP Ford's remodeled River Rouge complex is a world away from when Henry Ford turned raw iron ore into Model A cars there.
		At the new Dearborn Truck Plant, a “living roof” will help heat and cool the building, and assembly lines are flexible enough to allow the company to build nine different models and react more quickly to shifting customer demand.
		Some 85,000 flowering perennials were planted along a new greenbelt parkway, along with 20,000 shrubs and hundreds of new trees.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4843708 (890 words)

	ArtLex on Precisionism
		River Rouge Plant, Sheeler's commercial photography proved a valuable source of imagery.
		River Rouge Plant, 1932, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 1/8 inches (50.8 x 61.3 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
		Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company, 1927, depicted: Michigan, United States of America, gelatin silver print, 23.5 x 18.8 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/p/precisionism.html (400 words)

	The Rouge plant -- the art of industry
		During the late 1920s and early 1930s the Ford Rouge plant became the largest industrial complex in the world, as well as the most advanced, architecturally and technically.
		Situated on more than 2,000 acres in Dearborn along the Rouge River, a tributary of the Detroit River southwest of downtown Detroit, the Rouge plant was built to easily receive iron ore from Upper Michigan and coal from Pennsylvania by ship.
		In addition to steel forging and stamping operations, manufacture of parts and the assembly of automobiles, the Rouge also included a power plant, glass plant, cement plant, and byproducts plant which produced petroleum products, such as paints, fertilizers, and charcoal.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=189&category=business (1423 words)

	NGA - Charles Sheeler: Across Media - Commercial Photography
		While the Rouge photographs were initially used to publicize the Ford Motor Company, they eventually came to serve as the basis for an assortment of experiments in various other media as well.
		The view in American Landscape, 1930, of the Rouge's boat slip and the silos of the cement plant, was "pulled out" from the background of the gelatin silver print, Ford Plant, River Rouge, Canal with Salvage Ship, 1927, and its vertical format turned into a horizontal, panoramic view.
		Described in general terms such as "American" and "classic" in their titles, the paintings are abstracted and distanced from the harsh, workaday realities of the factory in order to highlight the subject's aesthetic qualities.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2006/sheeler/commercial.shtm (435 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 00055124
		In effect, the flow was dictated by the plant's initial design -- a design that promoted efficiency by allowing work to flow continuously from beginning to end and by having it consume at every point only the resources needed to advance one unit of output one step further toward completion.
		To understand the differences in how Toyota and the Big Three interpreted operations at the River Rouge plant is to understand the difference between Toyota's distinctive thinking and the thinking that has dominated management practice in most of the world's other businesses during the past five decades.
		But the idea of replicating a plant as large and complex as the River Rouge facility for each variant seemed impractical, especially as the number of varieties increased.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon031/00055124.html (4866 words)

	American America History - Ford Motor Company: The River Rouge Manufacturing Complex
		This picture is of the River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
		This plant was the largest of its kind at the time of its construction.
		Before the Rouge plant Ford's main manufacturing plant was Highland Park.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=23722 (987 words)

	Cahill Associates - Environmental Consultants - Ford Motor Company
		During a 200 billion dollar plant renovation, William McDonough & Partners Architects and Cahill Associates (CA) were brought on as part of the environmental leadership on site.
		The first of many improvements at the Rouge River Plant was a new vehicle storage and staging lot.
		Additional similar systems will be applied through the Rouge Plant renovation sand will include vegetated roof covers on the new million square foot assembly plant, additional stormwater storage features, and an open surface constructed wetland for water quality.
	www.thcahill.com /ford.html (183 words)

	Organizing Ford 1940
		In May, 1937, in one of many early efforts to organize Ford, the UAW attempted to pass out leaflets at an overpass leading to Ford’s giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan (outside of Detroit).
		Finally, on April 1, 1941, a dispute in the plant’s steel-rolling mill sparked a walkout that led to the entire Rouge complex being shut down.
		The huge Windsor Ford plant, with 13,000 workers, was organized by the UAW in November, 1941.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~mac_caw/alex/web/essays/essay10.html (483 words)

	Rouge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rouge, a cosmetic used to color the cheeks and emphasize the cheekbones.
		Rouge, a 13-parts MTV television series, produced by MTV Asia and MediaCorp Singapore and broadcasted widely in Asia, Australia and the United States (on AZN Television).
		Rouge is a minor character in the series Ranma 1/2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rouge (306 words)

	Greenroofs.com Projects - Ford Motor Company's Rouge River Plant
		The Rouge River Plant, also known as Ford Dearborn Truck Assembly Plant, won the 2004 Green Roofs for Healthy CIties Award of Excellence in the Extensive Industrial Commercial category.
		Also the living plants absorb carbon dioxide as part of photosynthesis, so oxygen is emitted and greenhouse gases are reduced.
		Planting of more than 1,500 trees and thousands of other plantings to attract songbirds and create habitats.
	www.greenroofs.com /projects/pview.php?id=12 (646 words)

	1941: Ford River Rouge
		Dearborn, where the River Rouge complex was located, was a company town-a feudal estate belonging to Henry Ford.
		The Black ministers who supported the union went to the plant to make an appeal to the Black workers inside and to rally support for the strike.The NAACP youth rallied to the cause-distributing literature in churches, stores, and households and at the plant.
		The struggles at Ford River Rouge in 1941 showed the power of the workers to overcome the many obstacles in their path.
	www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/ford1941.html (2979 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Battle of River Rouge: Reuther's Struggle
		A couple of friends and I went to the Rouge plant determined to see the famous overpass where the Battle of River Rouge (so the scuffle is called) took place.
		On the way to the Rouge complex, he explained how Henry Ford and some associates had founded the company, how much money Ford paid in salaries, how much land Ford owned, and how much of that land Ford had contributed to Dearborn for schools, parks, libraries and the like.
		The River Rouge plant itself is immense, and includes glass- and steel-making operations.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=156653 (1154 words)

	Highland Park Ford Plant
		The most notable of these was the continuously moving assembly line; its introduction in late 1913 reduced the assembly time of a Model T from 728 to 93 minutes.
		By 1920 the plant turned out a car every minute, and one out of every two automobiles in the world was a Model T. The rapid pace of production enabled Ford to pay his workers far higher wages, but it also created a relentless monotony that many of his employees detested.
		The Highland Park Ford Plant is approximately 4.5 miles from downtown Detroit.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/detroit/d32.htm (236 words)

	Ford overhauls factory to be green - Green Machines - MSNBC.com
		Carlos Osorio / AP Ford's remodeled River Rouge complex is a world away from when Henry Ford turned raw iron ore into Model A cars there.
		At the new Dearborn Truck Plant, a “living roof” will help heat and cool the building, and assembly lines are flexible enough to allow the company to build nine different models and react more quickly to shifting customer demand.
		Some 85,000 flowering perennials were planted along a new greenbelt parkway, along with 20,000 shrubs and hundreds of new trees.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/4843708 (914 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: River Rouge and Neobiological Industry
		October 12, 2004 11:50 PM Detroit's Rouge River is one of those famously polluted runs of water: it has run yellow, caught on fire, even been declared biologically dead.
		It's a far cry from "the Next Industrial Revolution", but as an indicator of the state of the possible, it's quite encouraging, for nothing that Ford's done at River Rouge couldn't be done by every factory in the developed world.
		At Kalundborg's center is a coal-burning power plant, which not only generates electricity but supplies waste steam to run a nearby pharmaceutical factory and oil refinery.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/001387.html (1393 words)

	Amazon.com: River Rouge: Books: Joe Cabadas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1914, Henry Ford ordered the construction of a small plant at the confluence of the River Rouge and Detroit River in what was then the rural community of Dearborn, just outside of Detroit.
		Like "the Rouge" itself, this illustrated 90-year chronological history of the complex will provide a sprawling view of the evolution of automaking and industrial technologies, as well as the exciting new concepts the company is incorporating into the current redesign.
		Thanks to the Rouge's immensity and diverse operations, archival and current images provide a visual cornucopia for just about any reader.- The River Rouge automotive factory is part of Henry Ford's grand legacy that remains today.
	www.amazon.com /River-Rouge-Joe-Cabadas/dp/0760317089 (1673 words)

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